Deaths in February 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2001.

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Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

February 2001

1

• Sam Harshaney, 90, American baseball player.[1]
• Amryl Johnson, 56, Trinidadian poet.[2]
• Sir Harold Maguire, 88, British air marshal and Director-General of Intelligence.[3]
• Leslie Vincent, 91, American actor (Forever Amber, Destry Rides Again, Paris Underground).[4]

2

• June Lazenby Green, 87, American judge (United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia).[5]
• Carol Anne Letheren, 58, Canadian Olympic Association official, brain aneurysm}}.
• Freddy Wittop, 89, Dutch costume designer (winner of Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Hello Dolly!).[6]

3

• Helmut Gude, 75, German Olympic middle-distance runner (men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[7]
• Frederick Lawton, 89, British judge.
• Gerald Suster, 49, British revisionist historian, occult writer, and novelist.

4

• Sonia Arova, 73, Bulgarian ballerina (Ballets Russes, London Festival Ballet, Royal Ballet, National Ballet of Washington, D.C., American Ballet Theatre).[8]
• Sir David Beattie, 76, New Zealand jurist and Governor-General.[9]
• Barry Cockcroft, 68, British television documentary director and filmmaker (Too Long a Winter).[10]
• Larry Fisher, 93, American real estate developer and philanthropist.[11]
• Natalia Gheorghiu, 86, Soviet Moldovan pediatric surgeon, physician, professor and doctor of medical sciences (a pioneer of pediatric surgery in Moldova).[12]
• J. J. Johnson, 77, American jazz trombonist, suicide.[13]
• Pankaj Roy, 72, Indian cricketer.[14]
• Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer.[15]

5

• Jean Davy, 89, French actor.
• Jean Denton, Baroness Denton of Wakefield, 65, British businesswoman and politician.[16]
• David Iftody, 44, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Provencher, Manitoba).[17]
• Elsa Irigoyen, 81, Argentine Olympic fencer (women's fencing foil at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics).[18]
• Jerry McQuaig, 89, American baseball player.[19]
• Schuyler F. Otteson, 83, American academic administrator and professor of marketing.

6

• Gus Boulis, 51, Greek-born American businessman and murder victim.[20]
• Stephen Halaiko, 92, American Olympic boxer (silver medal winner in lightweight boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics).[21]
• Arthur W. Hummel Jr., 80, American diplomat.[22]
• Jack Hyles, 74, American Baptist megachurch pastor.[23]
• Filemon Lagman, 47, Filipino revolutionary socialist and workers' leader.[24]
• Sir Richard Southern, 88, British medieval historian.[25]

7

• Dieter Dengler, 62, German-American United States Navy aviator and Vietnam War prisoner-of-war escapee (Little Dieter Needs to Fly).[26]
• Dale Evans, 88, American actress, singer and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.[27]
• Sir Michael Grylls, 66, British politician.[28]
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator, and wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh.[29]

8

• Leslie Edwards, 84, British ballet dancer.[30]
• Arlene Eisenberg, 66, American author, known for her contributions to parenting self-help literature (What to Expect When You're Expecting).[31]
• Luis Piñerúa Ordaz, 76, Venezuelan politician.

9

• William Epstein, 88, Canadian civil servant and United Nations disarmament official.[32]
• Reginald Marsh, 74, English actor.
• Herbert A. Simon, 84, American economist (Nobel Prize in Economics, Turing Award).[33]

10

• Lewis Arquette, 65, American actor.[34]
• Abraham Beame, 94, 104th Mayor of New York City (1974–1977).[35]
• Robert H. Lounsberry, 82, American politician.[36]
• Buddy Tate, 87, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (Count Basie Orchestra).[37]

11

• José Luis Borbolla, 81, Mexican footballer.
• Edward E. Fitzgerald, 81, American sports author and editor (Book of the Month Club).[38]
• Jai Ganesh, Indian Tamil film actor, cancer.
• Raymond Lewis, 48, American basketball and streetball player, complications following leg amputation.
• Charles C. Price, 87, American chemist.
• Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, 87, British author.
• John Joseph Sullivan, 80, American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

12

• Ellen MacKinnon, 74, Canadian politician.
• Herbert Robbins, 86, American mathematician, statistician and co-author of What is Mathematics?.[39]
• Ralph Smart, 92, Australian film and television producer.
• Kristina Söderbaum, 88, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer.[40]

13

• Ugo Fano, 88, Italian American physicist.
• Victor Veysey, 85, American Republican politician.
• Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, 83, British politician.[41]

14

• Charles B. Fitzsimons, 76, Irish-American actor, film producer and executive director of the Producers Guild of America.[42]
• Richard Laymon, 54, American horror author, heart attack.
• Maurice Levitas, 84, Irish-born British sociologist.[43]
• Alan Ross, 78, Indian-British poet and editor.[44]
• Jim Winkler, 73, American football player.[45]

15

• Boris Goldovsky, 92, Russian-born American conductor and broadcaster.[46]
• Burt Kennedy, 78, American screenwriter and director (The War Wagon, Support Your Local Sheriff!, The Virginian, Combat!).[47]
• Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden, 94, British industrialist and public servant.[48]

16

• Bob Buhl, 72, American baseball player.[49]
• Jerry Frei, 76, American football player (Wisconsin) and coach (Oregon, Denver Broncos, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears).[50]
• Howard W. Koch, 84, American film and television director and producer (The Manchurian Candidate, Maverick).[51]
• William H. Masters, 85, American gynaecologist (Masters and Johnson).[52]
• Ronald Watkins, 96, British drama teacher and director.

17

• John Coughlin, 75, American meteorologist.
• Bob Geary, 67, Canadian football player and manager in the Canadian Football League (CFL).[53]
• Khalid Abdul Muhammad, 53, American black nationalist leader (Nation of Islam, New Black Panther Party).[54]
• Christian O'Brien, 87, British geologist.

18

• Balthus, 92, French painter.[55]
• Claude Davey, 92, Welsh rugby union player.[56]
• Dale Earnhardt, 49, American NASCAR race car driver, crash during 2001 Daytona 500 race.[57]
• Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr., 89, American journalist and author (Cheaper by the Dozen, Belles on Their Toes).[58]
• Clare Kelly, 78, English actress.[59]
• Eddie Mathews, 69, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, pneumonia.[60]
• Charley Wensloff, 85, American baseball player.[61]

19

• Theophilus Beckford, 65, Jamaican pianist and vocalist.[62]
• Priscilla Davis, 59, American socialite, breast cancer.[63]
• Stanley Kramer, 87, American film director and producer (The Defiant Ones, Judgment at Nuremberg), pneumonia.[64]
• Guy Rodgers, 65, American basketball player.[65]
• Roland Stoltz, 69, Swedish ice hockey player.[66]
• Charles Trenet, 87, French singer.[67]

20

• Harry Boykoff, 78, American basketball player.[68]
• Irina Bugrimova, 90, Russian lion tamer, heart attack.
• Sir Colin Cole, 78, British officer of arms.
• Rob Dawber, 45, British railwayman and writer (The Navigators), lung cancer caused by asbestos.[69]
• Rosemary DeCamp, 90, American actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy, That Girl), pneumonia.[70]
• Bill Rigney, 83, American baseball player and manager.[71]

21

• Anna Gabriella Ceccatelli, 73, Italian politician.
• Ronnie Hilton, 75, English singer ("No Other Love", "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam") and radio presenter (Sounds of the Fifties).[72]
• John MacKay, Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish, 62, British politician.[73]

22

• Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, 84, British politician.[74]
• Dennis Cox, 75, British cricketer.[75]
• Radie Harris, 96, American journalist and newspaper columnist (The Hollywood Reporter), known for her relationships with Broadway stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.[76]
• Les Medley, 80, England international footballer, natural causes.[77]
• John Fahey, 61, American guitarist and composer.[78]

23

• Robert Enrico, 69, French film director and screenwriter.[79]
• Anthony Giacalone, 82, American organized crime figure in Detroit (purported key role in disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa).[80]
• Dame Ruth Railton, 85, British music director and conductor.[81]

24

• Phil Collier, 75, American sportswriter (1990 winner of J. G. Taylor Spink Award).[82]
• Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke, 86, British politician.[83]
• Claude Shannon, 84, American electrical engineer and mathematician.[84]

25

• A. R. Ammons, 75, American poet.
• Helen Bennett, 89, American actress.
• Sir Donald Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer.[85]
• Jacques Nathan Garamond, 90, French graphic designer.
• Donald Garrow, 83, British Olympic alpine skier (men's alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics).[86]
• Norbert Glanzberg, 90, French composer.
• Giovanni Grimaldi, 84, Italian screenwriter, journalist and film director.
• Jacob Hiatt, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Bitsy Mott, 82, American baseball player.[87]
• Sigurd Raschèr, 93, German-American saxophonist.
• Lou Steele, 72, American actor, radio, and television announcer, heart attack.
• John J. Tammaro Jr., 75, American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

26

• Leif Haugen, 83, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics).[88]
• Jale İnan, 87, Turkish archaeologist,.
• Paul Donnelly Paganucci, 69, American investment banker and businessman, laryngeal cancer.
• Arturo Uslar Pietri, 94, Venezuelan writer, television producer and politician.[89]
• Marc Vallot, 38, Belgian judoka, heart attack.

27

• Milton Barnes, 69, Canadian composer, conductor, and jazz drummer.
• Ralf D. Bode, 59, German-American cinematographer (Coal Miner's Daughter, Saturday Night Fever).[90]
• José García Nieto, 86, Spanish poet and writer.
• Selwyn Toogood, 84, New Zealand radio and television personality.
• E. W. Ziebarth, 90, American radio broadcaster.

28

• Stan Cullis, 84, British footballer and manager.
• Gildas Molgat, 74, Canadian politician, died shortly thereafter.
• Raúl Planas, 80, popular Cuban singer and songwriter, died at his home in Pueblo Nuevo, Havana on February 28, 2001.
• Charles Pozzi, 91, French racing driver, died in 2001 in Levallois-Perret, a suburb in western Paris.
• K. Sankunni, Indian film editor.

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